These 6 Things I Learned at CodeMash Will Shock You!

#6 - You Won't Believe this Manager's Trick for Hiring Developers!

How to Hire Programmers You’ll Want as Teammates

by Scott Drake

http://www.scottdrakeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/How-to-Hire-Programmers-from-DevSpace-2016.pdf

Personality Differences in programmers:

• Innovative or Pragmatic
• Technology Control: Tight, Negotiable, Loose
• Architecture Control: Tight, Negotiable, Loose
• Doer or Planner
• Business-oriented or Technical-oriented
• Clear or Concise
• High-level or Low-level
• Social or Solitary

Work these personality types into the job description, it will help candidates self select for you

Awesome tips on defining your company's culture

#5 - Learn why Jon Skeet HATES C#!!!

Abusing C# More

by John Skeet

https://github.com/jskeet/DemoCode/tree/master/Abusing%20CSharp/Code

Demo time!

PS: What's a finalizer?

#4 - The SECRET REASON Developers are Stressed!

The Mindful Developer: The Neuroscience of Successful Software Developers - Matthew Renze

by Matthew Renze

• Overcoming the Lizard Brain - how survival instincts cause problems for us in the modern world.

• Develop a mind like water, can recover from a rock dropped in.  Creates waves, but eventually goes back to being still.

• Meditation rewires the brain.

PS: Vipassana Meditation (Indian Technique) course: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

#3 - This simple XML trick will catch all of your porn habits!

A technical tour of real-world web application vulnerabilities

by Justin Collins

https://t.co/awBtWav5Nz

#3 - This simple XML trick will catch all of your porn habits!

#2 - The Unit Test Strategy that Has Everyone Worried

ptest some_list: list do
  reversed = my_reverse(some_list)
  assert length(reversed) == length(some_list)
end

Property Testing - Don’t write tests.  Generate them!

by Chris Keathley

https://fscheck.github.io/FsCheck/

Focus on defining behaviors, rather than specific test cases

#1 - 4 Jaw-Dropping Programming Languages

Incredibly Strange Programing Languages

by Craig Stuntz

https://speakerdeck.com/craigstuntz/incredibly-strange-programming-languages-codemash-1

#1 - 4 Jaw-Dropping Programming Languages

More info on TLA: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/tla.html

More info PSharp: https://github.com/p-org/PSharp/